mindmap root((NOV)) novice 1、 One who has no previous training or experience in a specific field or activity; beginner.
2、 A new member of a religious order who is preparing to become a nun or monk.
🌱It's hard to believe that a year ago she was a complete novice as a gardener, who couldn't identify a cornstalk. 🌳Among the ancient Romans, a novice （novicius） was usually a newly imported slave, who had to be trained in his or her duties. Among Catholics and Buddhists, if you desire to become a priest, monk, or nun, you must serve as a novice for a period of time, often a year （called your novitiate）, before being ordained or fully professing your vows. No matter what kind of novice you are—at computers, at writing, at politics, etc.—you've got a lot to learn. novel 1、 New and not resembling something formerly known or used.
2、 Original and striking, especially in conception or style.
🌱His techniques for dealing with these disturbed young people were novel, and they caught the attention of the institute's director. 🌳If someone tells you that you've come up with a novel idea or a novel interpretation of something, it's probably a compliment: not everyone is capable of original thinking. But not everything new is terribly worthwhile; a novelty, for example, is often a cute （or maybe just silly） little object that you might put on a display shelf in your house. It may seem surprising that the familiar noun novel is related as well. In the 14th century, Italian writers began writing collections of short tales, each of which they called a novella because it represented a new literary form; from this word, three centuries later, the English coined the noun novel. innovation 1、 A new idea, device, or method.
2、 The introduction of new ideas, devices, or methods.
🌱"Smooshing" bits of candy into ice cream while the customer watched was just one of his innovations that later got copied by chains of ice-cream outlets. 🌳Innovation is a word that's almost always connected with business. In business today, it's almost a rule that a company that doesn't innovate is destined for failure. The most important and successful businesses were usually started by innovators. And company managers should always at least listen to the innovative ideas of their employees. supernova 1、 The explosion of a star that causes it to become extremely bright.
2、 Something that explodes into prominence or popularity.
🌱After exploding, a nova leaves a "white dwarf" which may explode again in the future, but a supernova destroys the entire star. 🌳A nova, despite its name, isn't actually a "new" star, but rather one that wasn't noticed until it exploded, when it may increase in brightness by a million times before returning to its previous state a few days later. A supernova is far larger; a star in its supernova state may emit a billion times as much light as previously. After a few weeks it begins to dim, until it eventually ceases to exist; it's often replaced by a black hole. （Though remains that were shot out into space may survive; those of a great supernova seen in A.D. 1054 are now known as the Crab Nebula.） All this may serve as a warning to those human stars whose fame explodes too rapidly; supernovas of this kind have sometimes vanished by the following year.